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Title: Floral emblems
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838
Subjects: Flower language Flowers in literature Emblems
Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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t a tone,A breath of the beloved one. PREFERENCE. Scarlet Geranium. Geranium boasts Her crimson honours. Cowper, This emblem originated from the preferenceshown by florists to the cultivation of the * Genteel geranium With a leaf for all that come. FLORAL EMBLEMS. 245 PRESUMPTION. Snap-dragon .—A ntirrhinum. The stern and furious lions gaping mouth. Columella. This singular flower is made the symbol ofpresumption, from its monopetalous corollaforming- a mask, which resembles the faceof an animal. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fro-ward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs viii. 13. 246 FLORAL EMBLKMS. PRETENSION. Ly thrum .—Lythrum. LEstrange says, Men indulge those opi-nions and practices that favour their preten- sions. ** But if to unjust things thou dost pretend.Ere they begin, let thy pretensions end. Denham. PRIDE. Amaryllis .—A mary His. In all the liveries deckd of summers pride. Milton. The splendour of these flowers has causedthem to be made the emblem of pride.
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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 247 This beautiful species of the lily tribe variesnot more in its colours than pride does in itsqualities. Man without ** The honest pride of conscious virtue, is a mere animal, a sloth. Man, with prideof the insolent kind is lower than the brute.Man, who permits his self-esteem to Peepthrough each part of him, is to be pitied as afrivolous insect that struts through its shortsummer; whilst the man, whose pride consistsin the elevation of a generous heart, has thefeelings of a celestial being, and must ever beregarded as the most elevated of his species. The miser is proud of his wealth; the spend-thrift of his extravagance ; the hypocrite ofhis cunning ; the lionest man of his integrity ;the sloven of his filth ; the beau of his neat-ness ; the coxcomb of his dash; and the quakerof his prim formality. And arrogance is notmore proud of the wounds it inflicts, thanbenevolence is of the balm it bestows. 248 FLORAL EMBLEMS. The Greek name of this plant signifiessplendour

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